Christian Bogatu

Investment Advisor at German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND)

Speaker

Christian is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is co-founder of Oliment, developing zero-carbon cement that is low-cost and highly scalable for the global cement industry. He also serves on the Investment Committee of SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, identifying and supporting innovators with radical ideas with a billion Euro budget. Since 2018, Christian also serves as Venture Partner for Eurazeo, the largest EU based Venture Capital fund, investing in cleantech startups. From 2017 until 2020 he was co-founder and CEO of Fresh Energy, generating unparalleled insights based on smart meter data, before selling Fresh Energy to EWE end of 2020. From 2011 until 2017 he was co-founder and managing director of KIWI (www.kiwi.ki), building a city-scale handsfree access-as-a-service system. Prior to KIWI, he co-founded Kirsen Global Security in the Silicon Valley that became global leader in container security and exclusive provider for the DB Schenker smartbox. Christian has more than 5 years of experience as senior consultant with McKinsey. Christian holds/held several Board memberships: innogy (former RWE) Digital Transformation Board; German PropTech Initiative (GPTI); Vali Berlin - The Entrepreneurship Hub at ESMT Berlin; UC Berkeley BA International Diploma. Christian holds a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in security technology and logistics and a master (Diplom) in energy management and chemical engineering from the University of Technology in Berlin, Germany.